Printmaking

Misc. Ink Drawings

Ink has always been my favorite medium. I was first introduced to the micron pen in the eleventh grade in a summer art program. That was truly a life altering moment.

Fool

Ink

Self Portrait

Ink

Shirt

Ink

Banana

ink

Humming Birds

In the summer of 2016 I visited my grandparent's farm in Tennessee. They live in a small town near the border to the west that can't be located on a map. There in the middle of nowhere my grandparents care for a variety of wildlife, one species being the hummingbird. They go through gallons of sugar water a day. Hundreds of birds swarm the front of there house. If your brave enough to lay under the feeders you can feel a breeze from their wings along with hearing a gentle humming.

Hummingbirds

Pen and Ink in a sketchbook

Comics

Spot Illustrations

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Babirusa

Growing up in Florida I was taught to fear the wild boar. Once when I was a kid exploring my neighborhood I stumbled upon one of their nests. I could hear grunting in the distance growing closer. Never had I been more afraid. Now the wild boars of Florida look nothing like the Babirusa, but I always imagined them to have great tusks.

Barbarosa

Pen and Ink in a sketchbook.

Growlers

I find humor in the fact that this poster made for my hometown, college, hole-in-the-wall bar made it to a gallery in New York. This was my second piece to make it to the Student Show at the Society of Illustrators in Manhattan. It was an honor.

Growlers

Pen, Ink and Digital

Fox and Rabbit

During my brief attendance at the University of Central Florida I explored writing and illustrating my own fables. This particular story was about a rabbit who was too generous and unable to say the word "No."

Fox and Rabbit

Pen, Ink and Digital

Looking After Leeks

My first published piece happened to be for the British literary magazine PopShot. It was published in the winter of 2015. If you've never read PopShot, I highly recommend it; not only for the art, but the literary works as well.

Looking After Leeks

Pen, Ink and Digital

Abandoned

This illustration has gone through many name changes, but I think I finally just stuck with something that made sense. This piece was a huge cosmic coincidence in my life. This was my first project in my senior illustration class at Ringling College, and I wanted to do something detailed and crazy. So naturally I broke into a local abandoned factory, snapped a bunch of reference and went on to create this.

Almost a year later I'm talking about this piece with my dad, and I tell him what I did. He knew the factory, in fact he worked there. He told me the factory use to create detonators for bombs and had a chemical leak and that closed the factory. I like to think the doorway in my illustration might have been his office or a break room he spent time in.

Abandoned

Pen, Ink and Digital

Chives

If you had told me I would keep a Jackson Chameleon as a pet some years ago I wouldn't know what you were even talking about. I was hypnotized into buying him while helping a friend replace a Chinchilla that had just passed. Chives was the best pet, friend, cool dude I've ever known. He passed away suddenly in the summer of 2016.

Chives

Pen, Ink and Digital

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

For my thesis my senior year of Ringling Colleges Illustration program I studied and interpreted the works of Haruki Murikami. More specifically his collection of short stories titled "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman." These were two pieces from that collection.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Pen, Ink and Digital

Sister; Stranger

Pen, Ink and Digital

If Found, Please Return

If Found, Please Return is a movie directed by Sydney E Ray. Please check it out here.